§ MR. J. R. BUCHANAN (Aberdeenshire, E.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with reference to the provisions inserted in the Sea Fisheries (Scotland) Act 1895, whereby the powers conferred on the Scotch Fishery Board of regulating trawling within 13 miles of the Scotch coast cannot be exercised unless the States Signatories of the North Sea Convention accept them as binding on their own subjects, what steps (if any) the Foreign Office has taken to obtain their assents from these States Signatories?
MR. CURZONNo steps have so far been taken to obtain the assent of the States Signatories of the North Sea Fisheries Convention to a limit of 13 miles for trawling, the matter still being under the consideration of the Government.